BlackBerry Blend brings all your BBM and text messages from your BlackBerry to the integrated messaging hub on your computer and tablet. Get instant notifications of new messages, and read, respond and create messages on any device to be more productive.

Forgot your BlackBerry smartphone at home? You can still get your BBM messages, emails and text messages from your BlackBerry on your computer or tablet through BlackBerry Blend, even when you don’t have your phone with you.

Because the power of BlackBerry is extended to your computer and tablet through BlackBerry Blend, you have secure access to your work email, calendar and important files on any device without VPN. So much easier, so much faster.

BlackBerry Blend can connect wirelessly via Wi-Fi or cellular connection, or wired through the USB port on your computer. Once connected, use your BlackBerry ID on your computer and tablet to connect to BlackBerry Blend and you are set to go.

BlackBerry Blend is easy to set up. Simply download and install the software for your computer (Mac and Windows) or tablet (Android and iOS) and then log in with your BlackBerry ID. The BlackBerry Blend app is already installed on BlackBerry smartphones running BlackBerry 10 OS version 10.3 or later.

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| 450 CommentsBlackBerry Blend has officially reached EOL status
If you're a fan of BlackBerry Blend, BlackBerry has quietly posted some disappointing news. According to their software support lifecycle page, BlackBerry Blend as of July 31, 2016, has reached end of life status and will no longer be supported officially. The app which was originally released in...

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Aug 08, 2016
BlackBerry Blend has officially reached EOL status

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If you're a fan of BlackBerry Blend, BlackBerry has quietly posted some disappointing news. According to their software lifecycle page, BlackBerry Blend as of July 31, 2016, has reached end of life status and will no longer be supported officially.
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If you love BlackBerry Blend as much as I do, you're going to want to stop for a minute and fire up BlackBerry World. A new BlackBerry Blend app update has now arrived in BlackBerry World and is available for download.
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As we mentioned previously, BlackBerry Blend, BES12 Cloud and WatchDox were finalists for the CTIA Super Mobility 2015 Awards that took place at the Super Mobility 2015 conference held on Sept. 9-11 in Las Vegas and BlackBerry has now announced WatchDox by BlackBerry and BlackBerry Blend have won awards.

WatchDox took home the first place award for Mobile Security & Privacy while BlackBerry Blend captured second place under the Mobile Applications, Development & Platforms category. Industry experts, analysts and media judged the hundreds of entries across CTIA's three programs to determine the finalists and winners, which included votes from folks like you. You can check out the full listing of winners right here via the CTIA website.

The CTIA Super Mobility 2015 Awards are just around the corner and will be presented at the Super Mobility 2015 conference to be held Sept. 9-11 in Las Vegas. This year, BlackBerry has three products from their enterprise portfolio in the running as finalists and you can help them win with your votes.

Jul 24, 2015
CrackBerry asks: How often are you using BlackBerry Blend? (revisited)

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Back in November last year (2014) we ran a poll to establish how many BlackBerry 10 users were taking advantage of BlackBerry Blend. In those early days of the software, Blend was only available to users that were rocking either the BlackBerry Passport or P'9983. Things have progressed nicely since then, including Blend being updated to version 1.2 very recently and with a lick of fresh paint it works like a dream.

BlackBerry Blend v1.2 has been available for Beta Zone users for some time and in early June it was announced that it would be available to everyone soon enough. Today, an update to Blend has arrived for BlackBerry 10, Android as well as iOS. It brings with it a new Dashboard design and UI, as well as the ability to reply to BBM and SMS messages directly from notification pop-ups.

Jun 02, 2015
BlackBerry 10.3.2 and Blend 1.2 will make their way to all BlackBerry 10 devices

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All BlackBerry 10 users will be excited to find out that their devices will be receiving BlackBerry OS 10.3.2, along with BlackBerry Blend 1.2. In a post on their official blog, BlackBerry has announced that 'over the coming weeks' users will begin seeing the software update hitting their devices. With these new updates, users will notice enhancements across their device, as well as improvements for security and privacy.

May 14, 2015
BlackBerry Blend v1.2 Beta 2 now available in the Beta Zone

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While the first round of beta testing for BlackBerry Blend brought some much-needed fixes, the newest release known as Beta 2 has now arrived in the BlackBerry Beta Zone and is available for download. This release has taken a lot of the feedback offered up by Beta Zone members and implemented it to include not only further fixes but some feature additions as well. Thankfully, we don't have to guess what they are as BlackBerry has laid them all out for us.

BlackBerry Blend is without a doubt one of my favorite additions that came with BlackBerry 10.3 and up but to be honest I've been bit miffed at the fact it hasn't gotten any real love since release. The last update to the desktop apps was back in December I believe and since then they've remained untouched despite some pretty obvious and annoying bugs.

Don't get me wrong, I still use BlackBerry BlendEVERY SINGLE DAY and I think it's the best thing since sliced bread plus, the device apps have been updated more frequently, but it needs some love in a bad way. Thankfully, someone at BlackBerry spotted that fact as well and now, there's a new beta available with invites being sent out as you're reading this.

The changelog and known issues list isn't huge but at this point any update to the desktop versions of BlackBerry Blend is appreciated.

Each year, at Mobile World Congress the Global Mobile Awards are held and with this year's nominees now announced, we know BlackBerry has at least two offerings in the running. For Best Mobile Service or App for Consumers, BlackBerry Blend has been nominated and for Best Security/ Anti-Fraud Product or Solution, BBM Protected has received a nomination. On the QNX side, QNX-Powered System for Virtual Cockpit in the 2015 Audi TT has been nominated in the Best Mobile Innovation for Automotive category.

BlackBerry has been on a roll with announcing new products and services for Enterprise and if you're looking to learn how they may fit into your environments, BlackBerry is hosting a webcast on January 28, 2015 at 11:00am - 12:00pm EST, to take a deeper look at some of their latest offerings.

Whether you're looking for the PC and Mac apps or the BlackBerry 10, iOS or Android versions, BlackBerry Blend has been updated across the board today with several improvements and fixes. Right now, the desktop versions don't really have a change log but the smartphone apps all share the same one.

If you're a BlackBerry Passport owner or P'9983 owner, you have access to BlackBerry Blend, the
awesome application that brings content on your BlackBerry such as files, calendar entries and conversations to your computer and tablet securely. I use it every single day, even though my use cases, thus far, are arguably small compared to others.

BlackBerry Blend has finally arrived for those lucky enough to have a BlackBerry Passport or Porsche Design P'9983 and it's totally awesome. At the BlackBerry Passport launch event in Toronto, we caught up with Sanjay Nathwani, Product Manager at BlackBerry to get a closer look at BlackBerry Blend and some of the stuff you can do with the app on the whole.

That's because it's not ready and well, BlackBerry hasn't even officially announced it or even really acknowledged it as of yet. We don't know why it's showing up in your download list but one could easily assume it's in preparation for its eventual unveiling and official announcement that's likely to come on the 24th with the BlackBerry Passport.

A new leak showing off the software has now appeared and while some of it still appears to be based off of dummy data or demo data, it does offer the best look yet at how end users will interact with BlackBerry Blend and what you can do with it. Plus, it also offers some finer details such as the system requirements you will have to meet in order to make use of the software.

With BlackBerry Blend you can:

View and respond to some messages and chats from different accounts in the BlackBerry Hub.

Access your BBM chats, groups, and BBM Channels.

Access your text messages (SMS).

View your daily, weekly, or monthly agenda.

Create new calendar entries and change existing entries.

Copy and transfer your files between your device and computer or tablet.

Open a browser with a secure connection to view private information from your organization's intranet, if your device is associated with a BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10.

Tasks that you might have previously completed using BlackBerry Desktop Software or BlackBerry Link can now be completed using BlackBerry Blend, including: Backing up and restoring device data, Switching to another device, Copying pictures, videos, and music between a computer or tablet and your BlackBerry 10 device.

From ChatBlend, to Fuse to BlackBerry Blend. It has been a long road for this software to come out but it would seem as though all the waiting is coming close to an end. Hopefully. I'm just glad I no longer look like a crazy person talking to myself while proclaiming BBM was coming to the desktop in some way. It has only taken well over a year but I'll take it.

We've seen a couple BlackBerry Blend retail demo videos since the app started appearing long ago but another one has now been dug out of OS 10.3.0.1052. In fact, everything about that OS is technically Blend ready right down to the desktop component actually launching on Windows and Mac but it's still locked out because it doesn't fully download. No matter though, at least we have a new video to watch.

Ever since the BlackBerry Blend rumors began, many folks have been wondering how exactly it all would connect to their device in order to make it work. Would it be through Bluetooth, HDMI, wirelessly? Internally, the BlackBerry 10.3 gold candidate is said to be mere days away and along with it, comes the full release of BlackBerry Blend and now we've managed to get our hands on a bit more screenshots of the actual set up process for Blend.

May 12, 2014
A quick video look at the BlackBerry Blend Beta dashboard

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Now that we've have some time to play around with the latest BlackBerry OS 10.3 leak and poke around the files a bit more, we've also dug some more info on the BlackBerry Blend Beta. Previously we showed you some images of how it looks and how we thought it would all work together but we've found some new information as well that's certainly interesting and offers some insight as to where BlackBerry is going with this.

For a while now we've been hearing about BlackBerry Fuse, BlackBerry Blend and BBM taking to the desktop. There's been a ton of proof that BlackBerry is essentially creating a way to bring all the information you house on your BlackBerry smartphone to a bigger screen, though what screen does sort of remain a mystery.

It could be your computer monitor, it could be your TV or it could even be a BlackBerry PlayBook or even a tablet made by a different manufacturer. There's just not enough known yet to really say but it has been suggested it fully arrive with 10.3.1 and the BlackBerry Windermere. In any case, BlackBerry has been working on this for a long time and while we've not yet got all the details straight, thanks to the latest BlackBerry 10.3 leak we're getting a look at what BlackBerry has thus far dubbed BlackBerry Blend Beta. We're still digging through all of the files but for now, check out the gallery below.

If you've been following all the latest BlackBerry 10 news for a while now, you might be familiar with the term 'BlackBerry Blend'. The files for it started appearing in early leaked builds of BlackBerry 10 and since then has been an ongoing piece of speculation over what it might be exactly. That speculation has grown even further now that BlackBerry has uploaded a video to their YouTube account offering a very small look at its existence beyond just some .bar files within a leaked OS.

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If you're a fan of BlackBerry Blend, BlackBerry has quietly posted some disappointing news. According to their software support lifecycle page, BlackBerry Blend as of July 31, 2016, has reached end of life status and will no longer be supported officially. The app which was originally released in September of 2014 alongside the BlackBerry Passport, allowed users to seamlessly bring messaging...

If you love BlackBerry Blend as much as I do, you're going to want to stop for a minute and fire up BlackBerry World. A new BlackBerry Blend app update has now arrived and is available for download. The change log on this one is pretty short and simply notes 'bug fixes' and does not call out anything specific, but improvements are always a welcome addition. With that in mind, if you happen to...

As we mentioned previously, BlackBerry Blend, BES12 Cloud and WatchDox were finalists for the CTIA Super Mobility 2015 Awards that took place at the Super Mobility 2015 conference held on Sept. 9-11 in Las Vegas and BlackBerry has now announced WatchDox by BlackBerry and BlackBerry Blend have won awards.
WatchDox took home the first place award for Mobile Security & Privacy while...

The CTIA Super Mobility 2015 Awards are just around the corner and will be presented at the Super Mobility 2015 conference to be held Sept. 9-11 in Las Vegas. This year, BlackBerry has three products from their enterprise portfolio in the running as finalists and you can help them win with your votes.
BlackBerry Blend, our content access software that lets you remotely view and edit content...

Back in November last year (2014) we ran a poll to establish how many BlackBerry 10 users were taking advantage of BlackBerry Blend. In those early days of the software, Blend was only available to users that were rocking either the BlackBerry Passport or P'9983. Things have progressed nicely since then, including Blend being updated to version 1.2 very recently and with a lick of fresh paint...

BlackBerry Blend v1.2 has been available for Beta Zone users for some time and in early June it was announced that it would be available to everyone soon enough. Today, an update to Blend has arrived for BlackBerry 10, Android as well as iOS. It brings with it a new Dashboard design and UI, as well as the ability to reply to BBM and SMS messages directly from notification pop-ups.
The...

Since its initial release, BlackBerry Blend has been updated several times and following up on the announcement of v1.2 arriving with the BlackBerry OS 10.3.2 update, another new version has now been released to the BlackBerry Beta Zone. This time around, participants can grab beta 3 for BlackBerry 10, Mac, Windows and Android, which BlackBerry notes has over 250 improvements.
What exactly...

All BlackBerry 10 users will be excited to find out that their devices will be receiving BlackBerry OS 10.3.2, along with BlackBerry Blend 1.2. In a post on their official blog, BlackBerry has announced that 'over the coming weeks' users will begin seeing the software update hitting their devices. With these new updates, users will notice enhancements across their device, as well as...

While the first round of beta testing for BlackBerry Blend brought some much-needed fixes, the newest release known as Beta 2 has now arrived in the BlackBerry Beta Zone and is available for download. This release has taken a lot of the feedback offered up by Beta Zone members and implemented it to include not only further fixes but some feature additions as well. Thankfully, we don't have to...

BlackBerry Blend is without a doubt one of my favorite additions that came with BlackBerry 10.3 and up but to be honest I've been bit miffed at the fact it hasn't gotten any real love since release. The last update to the desktop apps was back in December I believe and since then they've remained untouched despite some pretty obvious and annoying bugs.
Don't get me wrong, I still use...

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